I've been using Linux exclusively for closing in on 20 years now -- when I decided that DOS wasn't going to cut it in the brave new world of the Internet I tried Windows 98 for about two months. Decided that wasn't my thing and switched to Red Hat Linux and never left. (Though I use Centos rather than Red Hat's branded offering.)
I see a plus and a minus here. The plus: Linux may become better supported, easier to find in stores like Staples, and so on.
But it will also become a bigger target for the bad guys. There's a certain amount of security to be had using a more obscure operating system.
Since there are more content creators of this sort than there have ever been before, most of them must be happy with the situation.
And lots of people code for free and for fun too.
I do both, myself. I write open source code (usually BSD), closed source code on contract occasionally, and I play a fancy digital piano too. Never been paid a dime for my music but I do it for my own personal enjoyment and the challenge.
There may be less money in this stuff for the creators, but it's my understanding that there are more creators and more content being created than ever before.
So why does the less money part matter to the public and all of the creators who aren't expecting to buy a yacht or two with their earnings? In the "old world", most of those folks wouldn't be able to buy a yacht anyway, and their creations wouldn't be seen or heard by more than six people -- now they can perform for the world.
Some projectors don't require a lens swap. The Real D Z-screen (the most common 3D projection technology) just slides in front of the regular projector lens. It runs on a little track like an upside down curtain rod or a sliding closet door, so the switch from 2D to 3D takes literally two seconds to accomplish.
A lot of large movie theatres run their projection rooms that way. The whole thing (projectors, servers, ingesting new movies, setting up playilists, starting shows, monitoring for presentation issues) is done by remote network operations centers and none of the on-site staff has anything to do with projection and movie presentation at all.
The Canadian government has "always" had a film-making pool that all cable television companies are required to put a percentage of their revenue into, which is then doled out to make Canadian movies and television shows (most of which nobody actually watches, of course.) The cable companies are also required to show a certain percentage of Canadian television shows, and radio stations must play a certain percentage of Canadian music.
None of this currently applies to outfits like Netflix, and the incumbent cable companies and movie and television producers are pushing for them to also have to put money into their fund. I suspect it won't be long before an attempt is made to actually do it -- it gets brought up regularly.
The joy of closed source, where you have to beg and wait for a feature and even a large community of users and/or programmers have no other recourse if the answer is either no or wait forever.
That's part of why I like the flexibility offered by open source operating systems -- even if a feature is beyond the ability of some or most of the people who want it, if someone comes along who does have the ability to implement it then it will be done.
That's also my beef with ostensibly open source Android -- I still can't manage my phone as I see fit and I have all sorts of garbage apps that just show up by magic (Samsung Pay? Don't want. Flipboard? I keep disabling that and it keeps coming back anyway.)
I'm used to my computers where I know what's running on them and why and no mysterious processes exist that I can't get rid of and don't fully understand.
I own and operate a small business and I do my accounting with the Libreoffice spreadsheet. I print the spreadsheets out at the end of each year and give them to my accountant.
I own and operate a movie theatre and I pay a yearly per-seat fee for the music that's in the movies, believe it or not.
I questioned this once since I have difficulty believing that the film companies don't own the rights to the music that's in their own product (and most of the film companies are music publishing houses), and this is what I was told:
QUOTE: The movie company does not own the public performance rights. Generally speaking they will have negotiated the âoereproductionâ right â" or the separate right to reproduce the musical work in their films. Once a film is shown in theatres, this engages the âoeperformingâ right, or the right to perform the work in public. END OF QUOTE
Email, texts, video chats are all "free" when travelling through the Internet, but standard long distance telephone calls are charged by the minute.
And in most cases they travel through the same gear on the way from origin to destination.
Why is is that they can get away with charging for long distance telephone service as a separate line item at all? Is it just because people are used to the idea? Crank Crank Crank... "Hello, Mabel? Please ring George at the corner store."
The government can regulate the type of paint (lead-free, anti-corrosive agents, chemical base) but not the color.
I am under the impression that it is illegal in many (but perhaps not all) places to paint a vehicle school bus yellow unless it is, in fact, a school bus.
I use my credit cards (American Express and Mastercard) to pay for everything that I possibly can because I get a cash refund by doing it that way. I get 1.25% refund from American Express and 1% refund from Mastercard for most things and 2% from Mastercard for charges made at grocery stores.
Therefore, when I pay by credit card I am getting a discount on everything that I buy, up to and including things like my municipal water bill.
I'm aware of no other way that I can get those kinds of discounts on just about everything. If they're giving away free money why shouldn't I take it?
If there are 10,000 possible passphrases and you can try ten per hour, then you can unlock the phone within, at most, 42 days.
Which is probably less time (and certainly less costly) than this court fight. I wonder if Apple could write and test the custom software in 1000 hours? Likely not, if it's done right.
What rate to charge: What seems reasonable to you? Ask for that. If you get no takers, you're asking too much. That's how prices are set in a free market economy.
How to get advertisers to find the contact page: The target market for the advertisers are your readers. Some of your readers will also be advertisers or know others who will be. That's where the old-style "Your Ad Here! Call 555-1212 for information" boxes come in.
I do most all of my programming in C and mostly use ncurses but now for the occasions that I really want a gui I use the xforms toolkit.
It's similar to ncurses in that it hasn't changed significantly in many years, isn't likely to, and isn't going anywhere. It has an old-school X11/CDE look, but that suits me fine since I'm an old-school programmer.
I can recompile something that I wrote five or ten or twenty years ago with ncurses and it still works fine. Can't say the same for gtk, but now I can do that with xforms. So I'm very happy with xforms.
If you want long term stability in a gui widget toolkit, there's your answer.
If it's an old "Everlast" type metal holder, it very likely has a bracket screwed to the wall behind it that the holder slides onto. To remove the holder, you should lift it straight up the wall and that will unclip it from the bracket.
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It's "obscure" on the desktop. Therefore you have less things like booby-trapped websites and spam to deal with.
Internet servers aren't generally used to visit other websites and read email.
I've been using Linux exclusively for closing in on 20 years now -- when I decided that DOS wasn't going to cut it in the brave new world of the Internet I tried Windows 98 for about two months. Decided that wasn't my thing and switched to Red Hat Linux and never left. (Though I use Centos rather than Red Hat's branded offering.)
I see a plus and a minus here. The plus: Linux may become better supported, easier to find in stores like Staples, and so on.
But it will also become a bigger target for the bad guys. There's a certain amount of security to be had using a more obscure operating system.
Since there are more content creators of this sort than there have ever been before, most of them must be happy with the situation.
And lots of people code for free and for fun too.
I do both, myself. I write open source code (usually BSD), closed source code on contract occasionally, and I play a fancy digital piano too. Never been paid a dime for my music but I do it for my own personal enjoyment and the challenge.
So there you go.
There may be less money in this stuff for the creators, but it's my understanding that there are more creators and more content being created than ever before.
So why does the less money part matter to the public and all of the creators who aren't expecting to buy a yacht or two with their earnings? In the "old world", most of those folks wouldn't be able to buy a yacht anyway, and their creations wouldn't be seen or heard by more than six people -- now they can perform for the world.
Some projectors don't require a lens swap. The Real D Z-screen (the most common 3D projection technology) just slides in front of the regular projector lens. It runs on a little track like an upside down curtain rod or a sliding closet door, so the switch from 2D to 3D takes literally two seconds to accomplish.
Run the words "automated restroom" through google and you'll be amazed...
A lot of large movie theatres run their projection rooms that way. The whole thing (projectors, servers, ingesting new movies, setting up playilists, starting shows, monitoring for presentation issues) is done by remote network operations centers and none of the on-site staff has anything to do with projection and movie presentation at all.
So make it a 35% flat tax on gross income, no deductions
I sell widgets.
I buy the widgets at a wholesale price of $9 each and I retail them at my shop for $10 each.
My gross income is $10 for each widget that I sell, but I'm really making only $1 less whatever the costs are to keep my shop open and the lights on.
The Canadian government has "always" had a film-making pool that all cable television companies are required to put a percentage of their revenue into, which is then doled out to make Canadian movies and television shows (most of which nobody actually watches, of course.) The cable companies are also required to show a certain percentage of Canadian television shows, and radio stations must play a certain percentage of Canadian music.
None of this currently applies to outfits like Netflix, and the incumbent cable companies and movie and television producers are pushing for them to also have to put money into their fund. I suspect it won't be long before an attempt is made to actually do it -- it gets brought up regularly.
Maybe they just don't want employees who break the law on the weekends.
"I'm completely law abiding and honest, except when I'm not."
The joy of closed source, where you have to beg and wait for a feature and even a large community of users and/or programmers have no other recourse if the answer is either no or wait forever.
That's part of why I like the flexibility offered by open source operating systems -- even if a feature is beyond the ability of some or most of the people who want it, if someone comes along who does have the ability to implement it then it will be done.
That's also my beef with ostensibly open source Android -- I still can't manage my phone as I see fit and I have all sorts of garbage apps that just show up by magic (Samsung Pay? Don't want. Flipboard? I keep disabling that and it keeps coming back anyway.)
I'm used to my computers where I know what's running on them and why and no mysterious processes exist that I can't get rid of and don't fully understand.
Why can't I get a phone like that, too?
I own and operate a small business and I do my accounting with the Libreoffice spreadsheet. I print the spreadsheets out at the end of each year and give them to my accountant.
Nothing much to it, really.
Sunday leaders? Who leads for the rest of the week?
Back in the days of DOS and such, some bios-es would bring up that error:
Keyboard Not Found. Press F1 to Continue.
I own and operate a movie theatre and I pay a yearly per-seat fee for the music that's in the movies, believe it or not.
I questioned this once since I have difficulty believing that the film companies don't own the rights to the music that's in their own product (and most of the film companies are music publishing houses), and this is what I was told:
QUOTE:
The movie company does not own the public performance rights. Generally speaking they will have negotiated the âoereproductionâ right â" or the separate right to reproduce the musical work in their films. Once a film is shown in theatres, this engages the âoeperformingâ right, or the right to perform the work in public.
END OF QUOTE
Email, texts, video chats are all "free" when travelling through the Internet, but standard long distance telephone calls are charged by the minute.
And in most cases they travel through the same gear on the way from origin to destination.
Why is is that they can get away with charging for long distance telephone service as a separate line item at all? Is it just because people are used to the idea? Crank Crank Crank... "Hello, Mabel? Please ring George at the corner store."
The government can regulate the type of paint (lead-free, anti-corrosive agents, chemical base) but not the color.
I am under the impression that it is illegal in many (but perhaps not all) places to paint a vehicle school bus yellow unless it is, in fact, a school bus.
Come hell or high water, this should be dealt with pretty dam fast.
I use my credit cards (American Express and Mastercard) to pay for everything that I possibly can because I get a cash refund by doing it that way. I get 1.25% refund from American Express and 1% refund from Mastercard for most things and 2% from Mastercard for charges made at grocery stores.
Therefore, when I pay by credit card I am getting a discount on everything that I buy, up to and including things like my municipal water bill.
I'm aware of no other way that I can get those kinds of discounts on just about everything. If they're giving away free money why shouldn't I take it?
If there are 10,000 possible passphrases and you can try ten per hour, then you can unlock the phone within, at most, 42 days.
Which is probably less time (and certainly less costly) than this court fight. I wonder if Apple could write and test the custom software in 1000 hours? Likely not, if it's done right.
What rate to charge: What seems reasonable to you? Ask for that. If you get no takers, you're asking too much. That's how prices are set in a free market economy.
How to get advertisers to find the contact page: The target market for the advertisers are your readers. Some of your readers will also be advertisers or know others who will be. That's where the old-style "Your Ad Here! Call 555-1212 for information" boxes come in.
There you go. Best of luck to you.
Open Source highway gothic font created by Red Hat.
http://overpassfont.org/
Problem solved.
Another link: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fo...
I spent several years looking for an alternative to GTK for C programming (not C++) and eventually found the xforms toolkit:
http://xforms-toolkit.org/
I do most all of my programming in C and mostly use ncurses but now for the occasions that I really want a gui I use the xforms toolkit.
It's similar to ncurses in that it hasn't changed significantly in many years, isn't likely to, and isn't going anywhere. It has an old-school X11/CDE look, but that suits me fine since I'm an old-school programmer.
I can recompile something that I wrote five or ten or twenty years ago with ncurses and it still works fine. Can't say the same for gtk, but now I can do that with xforms. So I'm very happy with xforms.
If you want long term stability in a gui widget toolkit, there's your answer.
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I guess it's not ad-light then.
Oh well, I didn't need to read that after all.
If it's an old "Everlast" type metal holder, it very likely has a bracket screwed to the wall behind it that the holder slides onto. To remove the holder, you should lift it straight up the wall and that will unclip it from the bracket.